Maria Relaki - From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology: Studies in Honour of Professor Keith Branigan

From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology

SHEFFIELD STUDIES IN AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

ADVISORY EDITORIAL PANEL

Professor Stelios ANDREOU, University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Professor John BARRETT, University of Sheffield, England

Professor John BENNET, University of Sheffield, England

Professor Keith BRANIGAN, University of Sheffield, England

Professor Jack DAVIS, University of Cincinnati, USA

Professor Peter DAY, University of Sheffield, England

Dr Roger DOONAN, University of Sheffield, England

Professor Paul HALSTEAD, University of Sheffield, England

Professor Caroline JACKSON, University of Sheffield, England

Dr Jane REMPEL, University of Sheffield, England

Dr Susan SHERRATT, University of Sheffield, England

SHEFFIELD STUDIES IN
AEGEAN ARCHAEOLOGY

From the Foundations to the Legacy of Minoan Archaeology

Studies in honour of Professor Keith Branigan

edited by

Maria Relaki and Yiannis Papadatos

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Front cover: Crete, Mesara-type tomb Krasi A: alignment with midsummer dawn rising over horns of Khalikas mountain. Photograph Carlos Guarita. Part of a joint long-term project with Lucy Goodison to establish a pattern of dawn alignments at significant Minoan buildings.

It is our great privilege to produce this volume in honour of Professor Keith Branigan deriving from the 14th Sheffield Round Table in Aegean Archaeology (2931 January 2010). As founder and principal member of the Sheffield Centre for Aegean Archaeology (SCAA), Professor Branigan has been the instigator of the Sheffield Round Tables in Aegean Archaeology, organised annually since 1995, aiming to address each time a specific topic of Aegean Prehistory in a manner that showcases new research and promotes constructive debate within the discipline. Keith is also to be credited for establishing the series of Sheffield Studies in Aegean Archaeology publications deriving from the round tables that have tackled as diverse themes as Neolithic Society, Urbanism, Landscape and Land Use, Feasting and Craft Technologies to name but a few. It seemed a very fitting way to mark Keiths retirement by organising a Round Table in his honour and dedicating it to the subject of Minoan Crete to which he has contributed so vastly over the years.

Colleagues were invited to discuss topics from four distinct areas of interest that have informed Keiths work and have helped to shape the current picture of Minoan archaeology: general frameworks for understanding Minoan society; regional analysis, survey and settlement; technology and craft activity; and funerary archaeology. Keith has contributed to all these themes through major fieldwork and especially wide-influencing publications that still constitute the cornerstone of our knowledge of Bronze Age Crete. The breadth and depth of his influence is demonstrated in the articles of this volume, benefiting from his research and the intellectual legacy he established in Minoan archaeology.

We take this opportunity to warmly thank a number of people who have contributed to the production of the Round Table and this volume. John Bennet, Paul Halstead, Sue Sherratt, Peter Day, Roger Doonan, John Barrett, Michael Parker Pearson at the Department of Archaeology in Sheffield, for being gracious hosts, offering logistical support, and facilitating the conference organisation in every possible way. In addition, John Bennet, Peter Day, Gerald Cadogan, Paul Halstead, Sue Sherratt and Peter Warren chaired the conference sessions most effectively and guided a lively and stimulating discussion. Glynis Jones, Ben Chan, Christina Tsoraki and Ioanna Moutafi kindly hosted several of the Round Table participants. Debi Harlan and Valasia Isaakidou were the driving forces behind the organisation of the magnificent customary feast to open up the proceedings on Friday night, and continued the wonderful task that Nong Branigan has been performing since the Round Tables inception in hosting the Saturday night party. They were supported by an enthusiastic army of coffee makers, dish washers, room re-arrangers, and general helpers from the students of the Department of Archaeology as well as conference attendants. We also wish to acknowledge the contribution of colleagues who delivered oral presentations but were unable to submit an article for the publication: Cyprian Broodbank, Evangelia Kiriatzi, Myrto Georgakopoulou, Tim Campbell-Green, Tristan Carter, Despina Catapoti, and Roger Doonan. As always, we are grateful to the Institute of Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) for the financial support provided for the organisation of the Round Table and for taking this opportunity to honour Professor Branigan by awarding him the Medal of the Institute for Aegean Prehistory, presented to Keith by Professor Philip Betancourt. We are indebted to the pool of reviewers who offered comments and advice on the submitted articles and we thank the authors for engaging with these suggestions to produce what we hope is a stimulating and thought-provoking volume on Minoan archaeology. Finally, we are grateful to the Editorial Team at Oxbow for their patience and support during the lengthy gestation of this volume.

Maria Relaki and Yiannis Papadatos

P HILIP P. B ETANCOURT

Department of Art History, Temple University, 2001 North 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA.

G ERALD C ADOGAN

3 The Old Rickyard, Moreton Pinkney, Daventry NN11 3TL, UK.

J AN D RIESSEN

Universit Catholique de Louvain, Facult de philosophie, arts et lettres (FIAL), Collge Erasme, Place Blaise Pascal 1 bte L3.03.13, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.

L UCA G IRELLA

Universit Telematica Internazionale Uninettuno, Facolt di Lettere, Corso Vittorio Emanuele II, 39 00186 Rome, Italy.

D ONALD C. H AGGIS

Department of Classics, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 212 Murphey Hall, CB 3145, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145, USA.

Y ANNIS H AMILAKIS

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World, Brown University, Box 1837/60 George Street, Providence, RI 02912, USA.